Reports of a major outage at Spotify spread like wildfire last week. Then a curious picture began to emerge, one of outages only affecting those using modified Spotify apps designed to provide the Premium service at the free tier price. News that the problem has now been fixed and those in need can download new pirate apps, means that many are rushing to do so. Whether that will end well seems to hang in the balance. Could go this way, or could go that.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hate that torrentfreak completely airs this out in the open

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Genuine question: How would more people know and take advantage of modified apps like this if they were never mentioned? Personally, it never reached me, and I'm pretty connected. If I had done a search for "Spotify Premium for free" in the past, I would 100% expect that to show a list of false promises and malware...

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 6 points 6 days ago

literally any time someone complained about spotify someone would mention xManager.

I'm pretty connected

I hate to break it to ya ...

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

it’s been the first result for over a decade. If you had searched you would have found

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I really didn't come here to call anyone out, but I have to say it: you're either as uninformed as me, or you're lying. Just searched for this on Google in Firefox.

First result: an almost 1 year-old Reddit post linking an app that isn't current.

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Just to be comprehensive I installed it and tried to run it, but it isn't compatible with Android 15. Seems like a *piracy-focused person would have known this...?

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[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Like telling the Nazis that we've got Enigma so we'll know what they're up to from now on.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Haven't Spotify mods already been clamped down in one way or the other(in terms of having a trimmed down feature set)? I used to follow Balatan's mod from Mobilism and last I saw, Atleast some stuff was server sided.

Either case, mods can only go so far. I only used Spotify Premium once for a short while before returning back to YT Music and one of the things I liked was third party clients on desktop. ncspot is a terminal based client for Spotify that rakes in one tenth of memory requirements but sadly requires Premium and I don't think there is any way to bypass that as of now. (though of course, most users won't even care about such a niche client)

But if someone is serious about music, then Soulseek is the way to go. It has most genres of music, usually in flac and locally stored music is any day superior to cloud.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I used the modded apk and what I miss the most is the 'Discover Weekly' feature that would create a new playlist for you every Monday based on what you've been listening to. That was a great way to find new artists, I used to listen through it multiple times each week and some songs that I didn't initially vibe with had the chance to grow on me.

[–] neinhorn@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

You’re not losing out. I paid for premium for the last 8 years. In the last 2 years discover weekly turned into junk. The music in it didn’t match what i was listening to.

I cancelled it during the last price increase.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How do you think files get onto Soulseek?

and search is crippled

[–] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

search is crippled

Thanks I was missing that square on my corporate web service bingo card

[–] AZERTY@feddit.nl 6 points 6 days ago

I jumped to InnerTune until I get my arr stack up and running again.

[–] Moscow_@beehaw.org 1 points 15 hours ago

New to this, is there a good alternative to Spotify that anyone can recommend or a modded Spotify? Where can I download it.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

EeveeSpotify is still working for on IOS though and I hope that it stays that way.